Paul Hanna Award
Giving
Voice to the Female Hero
Felice House, MFA, MS, Texas A&M
University
Abstract
In order
for women to be recognized as heroic, women heroes have to be remembered. This
talk will explore how female heroes are placed in a visual narrative of heroes.
Contextualizing their lives provides a framework to understand the hero in
relation to gender.
Bio
As an
artist, House explores the tension between heroic archetypes and gender. Her
most recent series of large-scale paintings, RE•WESTERN,
places contemporary women into heroic roles played by movie icons such as John
Wayne. By flipping the gender, and retaining the same visual signifiers, the
series conveys female heroes and speaks to women’s access to power.
Tribute to
Paul Hanna
There will be
a tribute to Paul Hanna during the conference banquet by colleagues who knew
him personally through his work with TASA and service as Professor and
Associate Chairperson at Texas Tech University. Paul D. Hanna, age
84, passed away July 2, 2015 in Lubbock. He was born on July 27,
1930, in Alice, Texas, to Paul D. Hanna, Sr. and Nina Foster Hanna.
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